http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=10438 Bug ID: 10438 Summary: Packages naming/versioning broken Classification: Unclassified Change sponsored?: --- Product: Koha Version: master Hardware: All OS: Linux Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P5 - low Component: Packaging Assignee: koha-bugs@lists.koha-community.org Reporter: tomascohen@gmail.com CC: robin@catalyst.net.nz Our current packages naming and versioning doesn't support what we claim: if someone wants to maintain an specific version then we'll let him. It is also unnecesarilly complex for the users too. The current schema provides only two stable versions support at a given time, with 'oldstable' and 'stable' dists as a way of specifying that. Not only has that versions limitation (which could be fixed adding something like 'olderoldstable') but is also difficult for the user who has to check whether to change stable to oldstable to avoid unwanted version jump. This makes maintenance difficult even for IT stuff (is not *that* difficult, but is unnecesary). I propose changing the packages naming schema to something like: - Dists: stable (for the stable releases), devel (for the development branches) - Packages naming/version: pick the one VirtualBox uses and have: koha-common-3.8 koha-common-3.10 koha-common-3.12 and so on as packages names. Versioned with their corresponding full version (with minor release number) as it obvoiusly should. I think changing ths should be a minor task, and would make install instructions easier to write, maintain and follow, and would allow us to support more than two stable releases at a time. In a simpler way. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are watching all bug changes.